Gabriel Angler

Jesus carrying the cross from the high altar of the abbey church in Tegernsee.

Gabriel Angler (* around 1404 in Monheim (Swabia) or in Munich; † 1483 in Munich ) was a Gothic panel and fresco painter . Anglerstrasse in the Schwanthalerhöhe district of Munich is named after him. Gabriel Mälesskircher and Michael Wolgemut are among his students .

Life

Angler completed an apprenticeship with Berthold Landauer in Nördlingen . From 1430 he worked in Munich. In 1434 he became the first town painter, and in 1449 he bought a property on the north side of Marienplatz in Munich . Since 1460 he was restricted in his activity by an eye disease; after 1474 no more works are recorded.

plant

Angler's work represents a break with the surface projection of the early Gothic. It reveals influences from Burgundian court art, but there are also clearly Northern Italian models such as Altichiero da Zevio to be named. The battle thanksgiving image in the Votive Church in Hoflach near Fürstenfeldbruck (1431) is ascribed to him. 1434–1437 Angler painted a monumental retable altar for the previous building of the Munich Frauenkirche , for which he received the enormous sum of 4,275 Rhenish guilders at the time, and of which a plaque (Birth of Christ) is preserved in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin . The predella for an altar in Freising Cathedral dates from around 1438 . Anglers were also ascribed, among other things, the altar of Mary for the Kremsmünster monastery , the cross altar and the altar of Mary for the Polling monastery (each around 1440; attribution not certain, emergency name : Meister der Pollinger Tafeln ) and the so-called "rood screen crucifixion" in the Alte Pinakothek (um 1440). The "Tabula magna" (1444/45) (parts in the Bavarian National Museum , in the Germanic National Museum , in the Church of Bad Feilnbach and in the Bode Museum Berlin), created for the Tegernsee Monastery , is now considered to be his main work.

literature

• Alois Elsen:  Angler, Gabriel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 294 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Helmut Möhring: The Tegernsee altarpiece by Gabriel Angler and Munich painting from 1430–1450. scaneg Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-89235-071-2 .
• Herbert Schindler : Great Bavarian Art History. Volume 1. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 257 (Fig. Of the Kremsmünster Altarpiece), p. 301.

Web links

• Illustration of the Tegernsee Passion Altar (Alte Pinakothek Munich)
• 6 panels from Tegernsee in the Bavarian National Museum
• Gabriel Angler in the MünchenWiki